Neck muscle transplantation for lips
Health News April 2nd, 2010
During this implant or planting or transplant lips to look full and no wrinkles using silicone or collagen. Now the experts use the neck muscle tissue that makes the lips more natural shape.
These lip implants using transplantation of muscle and connective tissue from the patient’s neck. By using the patient’s own sternocleidomastoid muscle in the neck and along the side of the connective tissue (fasica) muscles surrounding it.
Lip implant neck muscles of patients is preferable because it does not need to add material on the lips to look full. Implant lips with this neck muscles can last for 2 years.
The study involved 25 patients who underwent enlargement of the lips by using their own sternocleidomastoid. The results of this study will appear in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery March April issue.
After ditindaklajuti for two years, researchers found an increase in the number of Vermillion (pink tissue) an average of 20-24 percent on the upper lip. As for the lower lip was also an increase in Vermillion for 0,9-0,99 millimeters.
“In this study none of the lip contour patients who have disabilities, and does not affect the movement of the head and neck nerve pain or injury,” said researchers from the Aesthetic Surgery Center in Naples, Fla., as quoted by AP, Wednesday (17 / 3 / 2010).
Although relatively safe, but researchers warn of possible risks associated complications such as infections, problems in wound healing process or require further surgery to repair and trouble speaking, eating or tersebyum for several days.
Women who do lip surgery is usually due to the form of lip wrinkles do not appear full due to age. Because of other aging signs of skin, hair can also be seen from the changes in a thinner lips, or slightly smaller when the age of aging
